THOMAS VICINANZO works in Mount Vernon, NY and writes fantasy and horror when he gets the chance. Some day his fantasy novel will be done (not the bad one, the good one), and all his true friends will read it and say it’s nice.

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Troy Volin is a fan of all science fiction. He lives in Chapel Hill, NC where he raises children, develops software, and develops other software developers.

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Kevin Wabaunsee is a speculative fiction writer living in Chicago. He is a graduate of the Viable Paradise writer’s workshop, and his fiction has previously appeared in Escape Pod, where he is also an associate editor. He is a Prairie Band Potawatomi. Find him on Twitter @lethophobe and at kevinwabaunsee.com.

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Seth Wade is a tech ethicist studying and teaching philosophy at Bowling Green State University. You can read his fiction and poetry in publications like Strange Horizons, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Hunger Mountain Review, PsuedoPod, Apparition Literary Magazine, HAD, hex, The Cafe Irreal, Lost Balloon, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, BAM Quarterly, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and The Gateway Review. He is also a Pushcart Prize nominee.

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Karl Edward Wagner (1945 – 1994) was an American writer, poet, editor and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist. He wrote numerous dark fantasy and horror stories. As an editor, he created a three-volume set of Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian fiction restored to its original form as written, and edited the long-running and genre-defining The Year’s Best Horror Stories series for DAW Books. He is possibly best known for his creation of a series of stories featuring the character Kane, the Mystic Swordsman, which could best be described as featuring the action of Conan and the decadence of Moorcock’s Elric. Wagner also loved the pulp era of short fiction, which is apparent in many of his short stories.

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Wendy N. Wagner is the author of the forthcoming horror novel The Deer Kings (due August from Journalstone), as well as the SF novel An Oath of Dogs, and two Pathfinder tie-in novels. Her short fiction has appeared in nearly fifty publications. She is the incoming (2021) editor-in-chief of Nightmare Magazine and also serves as Managing/Senior Editor at both Nightmare and Lightspeed. She lives, works, and makes mischief in Portland, Oregon. You can keep up with her at winniewoohoo.com.

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Herbert Russell Wakefield (1888-1964) was an English short-story writer, novelist, publisher, and civil servant chiefly remembered today for his ghost stories. He produced several short story collections during his lifetime such as THEY RETURN AT EVENING (1928), A GHOSTLY COMPANY (1935), THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE (1939) and STRAYERS FROM SHEOL (1961) and was an avowed believer in psychic phenomena and ghosts, although his final feelings about these things are conflicted (ultimately deciding that psychic sensitivity was a debilitating atavism that caused one to suffer for no reason, and that “the dead have nothing of importance to tell us”). He was a yeoman supernatural fiction author, equivalent to the American pulp writers, in that he turned out quite a lot of stories – some formulaic and some not. He is best understood as a modernizer of the classic M.R. James approach, bringing in details from the current culture, crime, and technology, while discarding stuffy antiquarianism.

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Christopher Walker lives surrounded by dark forests in Southwest Virginia with his wife, 2 cats, and 7-year-old son — who he’s pretty sure is a nexus of elemental chaos.

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